Storage Flashcards
You have an instance store on an EC2 instance, the instance stops and is restarted but the data is gone! What happened?
Instance stores are ephemeral
What happens if you reboot an instance that has an instance store?
The data IS NOT deleted
AWS S3 - at what filesize should you consider using Multipart upload
100MB
Clients need to transfer gigabytes to terabytes of data quickly and on a regular basis to an S3 bucket. Which S3 feature will enable these long distance data transfers in a secure and fast manner?
Transfer Acceleration
What happens to a EC2 root volume on instance deletion by default
root volume is deleted
What protcol does EFS support?
NFS
4 services EFS can easily be mounted on?
EC2
ECS
EKS
Lambda
What are the storage modes EFS supports?
Standard and IA
MultiAZ by default.
Can also use lifecycle policies to age off from standard to IA
File storage service that can serve as dropin replacement for ONTAP deployments
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
What OS does Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP support?
Linux, Windows, and macOS compute instances running in AWS or on premises.
What protcol(s) does Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTA support?
SCSI for block storage
NFS and SMB for file storage
SMB vs NFS
NFS is for Linux
SMB is for Windows
What is Amazon FSx for OpenZFS?
- Fully managed file storage service that helps you to move data residing in on-premises ZFS
- or other Linux-based file servers to AWS without changing your application code or how you manage data
- Great for latency-sensitive and small-file workloads with NAS data management capabilities (snapshots, and cloning), at a lower price than commercially licensed alternatives.
Protocol Support for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
NFS
SMB is not supported on initial launch
Throughput and IOPS of Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
12.5 gigabytes per second (GB/s) of throughput and up to 1 million IOPS
Which file storage option should I use if I want to easily integrate with Microsoft Active Directory?
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Protocol Support for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
SMB
Max storage size of Amazon FSx for Windows File Server per file system
64 TB
Ways that I can deploy a Microsoft SQL Server in AWS?
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Availability of Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
1 AZ by default but can support multi-az
Which file storage option should I use if I have an HPC, Machine Learning, parallel processing app
Amazon FSx for Lustre
Availability of Amazon FSx for Lustre
Single AZ Only
Throughput and IOPS of Amazon FSx for Lustre
Highest throughput
1+ TB/s throughput
IOPS (millions)
Protocol of Amazon FSx for Lustre
Posix compliant
Only file system that supports snapshots stored in S3
Amazon FSx for Lustre
True or False: EBS supports cross region attachments to EC2
FALSE
True or False: EBS is automatically replicated and encrypted
FALSE
It is automatically replicated by not encrypted (must be turned on)
What is EBS Multi-Attach?
New service that allows connecting of EBS on mutliple EC2s.
Only supports OPS SSD (io1 or io2) volumes and EC2 instances must be in the same AZ
What is the largest volume size that EBS supports
64 TB